MIST • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Mist

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/mɪst/ Listen

Mist

noun

A thin fog with condensation near the ground.

verb

(past & past part. misted; pres. part. misting)

Become covered with mist. Synonym: mist over.

Make less visible or unclear. Synonyms: becloud, befog, cloud, fog, haze over, obnubilate, obscure. "The big elm tree obscures our view of the valley"

Spray finely or cover with mist.

See more definitions of Mist...

Related searches:

Share |

"Mist" Quotes from Famous Books

... and snow, with millions of tons of ice underfoot, it could be so hot. But we took the loads right through to the head of the glacier that day, rising some four thousand feet in the course of five miles, and cached them there. On other days a smother of mist lay all over the glacier surface, with never a breath of wind, and the air seemed warm and humid as in an Atlantic coast city in July. Yet again, starting early in the morning, sometimes a zero temperature nipped toes ...

— The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley) - A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest - Peak in North America • Hudson Stuck

... and those things are painted ivory. And the walls! In each corner is a little cottage, right on the wall paper you know, Rosanna, and between just woods that look as though you were seeing them through a mist—sort of delicate and far away. And the rugs are a soft delicate green like the grass in spring. I hope she is lovely enough for all the love Mrs. Hargrave is going ...

— The Girl Scouts at Home - or Rosanna's Beautiful Day • Katherine Keene Galt

... a lovely morning that there—the loveliest I ever saw on the African coast; for there was no mist, and the rain having ceased, the strong sou'-westerly breeze that was blowing right offshore from the mainland tempered down the heat of the broiling sun, which only those who have been on the coast can have an idea of as to how intense it can be, while the pinnace ...

— The Penang Pirate - and, The Lost Pinnace • John Conroy Hutcheson

... at the window of her sitting-room at White Gables gazing out upon a wavering landscape of fine rain and mist. The weather had broken as it seldom does in that part in June. White wreathings drifted up the fields from the sullen sea; the sky was an unbroken gray deadness shedding pin-point moisture that was now and then blown against the panes with a crepitation of despair. The ...

— The Woman in Black • Edmund Clerihew Bentley

... utterance, and must act. He flung his arm around his father's neck and kissed him. And the father wept also, and yet spoke brave words to both as he walked with them to the gate and watched them ride into the thick mist lying upon the prairie like a cloud. They were only darker spots in it. It swallowed them up. ...

— Remember the Alamo • Amelia E. Barr

More quotes...